Tag Archives: book

• 

  A Landscape “The Forest of Arden” Journal Painting

  Posted on November 27, 2009 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals, Painting

  The journal I am prepping to use next is an old school book. An art class book in fact. As you might expect it is filled with color photos of famous paintings. One in particular caught my eye, “The Forest of Arden” by Albert Pinkham Ryder, painted in 1888. Here is a photo I found [...]

  Post Tagged with acrylic, altered books, art journal, book, colorful, landscape, masters, Mixed-Media, Painting
  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Holiday Colors In My Journal

  Posted on November 20, 2009 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals

  I played with golden yellow, red and green tonight. I know it is getting closer to the holidays when I start to gravitate to this holiday palette. I’ve been listening to interviews and video of Martin Glaser all evening. I fully embrace his beliefs about creativity and art. I too am a humanist and graphic [...]

  Post Tagged with acrylic, altered books, art journal, book, colorful, grunge, human form, imperfection, Mixed-Media, oil pastel, Painting, portrait
  3 Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  I Love Purple

  Posted on November 17, 2009 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals

  Since I was old enough to say the name I have loved purple. I rarely wear it, do not have any in my home and yet, I do really enjoy seeing it. Playing in my journal I keep seeing it popping up here and there. Finally I decided to just give in to impulse and [...]

  Post Tagged with acrylic, altered books, art journal, book, colorful, grunge, human form, imperfection, Mixed-Media, oil pastel, Painting, portrait
  2 Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Weekend Journaling

  Posted on November 16, 2009 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals, Mixed-Media

  I spent the weekend painting and watching movies. The movies definitely affected the painting. Several of them were horror flicks and I think I left much of the portraits a bit raw with sharp lighting because of this. That or I was just in one of those moods. Yes, even artists have those in their [...]

  Post Tagged with acrylic, altered books, art journal, book, colorful, grunge, human form, imperfection, Mixed-Media, oil pastel, Painting, portrait
  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Art Journal Painting From This Week

  Posted on November 14, 2009 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals, Mixed-Media

  I recently talked about trying out oil pastels over acrylics. Love it. I’ve been experimenting more and in this first picture I have used… acrylics, oil pastels, water color, more oil pastels. In that order This was a total blast and I am proud that my palm tree actually looks like one. Believe me I [...]

  Post Tagged with acrylic, altered books, art journal, book, colorful, grunge, human form, imperfection, Mixed-Media, oil pastel, Painting, portrait
  3 Comments.
  Continue Reading...